A couple things I like about these photos. These are “real people”, not heavily-filtered Insta influencer wannabes trolling for followers. These are people of various ages and genders and styles.

Like, look at this guy. Is he from Lord of the Rings? If he isn’t, then Tolkien was quite remiss in neglecting him.

I like this kid’s outfit bc you can just tell she’s gonna show this photo to her grandma next week and they’ll bond over it.

This one is deceptively simple, there are some great patterns in the shoulder spikes, the metal snakes in the headpiece, and the eye decoration.

waaah so jealous…

I hear ya. I especially gotta take a look at Iola Velegem’s archive of photos, especially for the Victorian period-era clothes, I’m trying to come up with some businesslike outfits in case I need to go back in the office a lot.

I had to look that up, killer song, yeah everyone in that video would totally look at home at WGT lel.

Oh no, I hadn’t heard that about Luc Besson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Besson#Rape_accusation

This album and several singles from it were posted a couple weeks back, but I heard this song on a stream recently and thought it was worth special notice.

When I was in high school one lunchtime I was sitting there reading sci fi by myself like a total nerd and some other kids were sitting nearby and they started smoking cigarettes, which was against the rules. Anyway a teacher saw them just as the lunch period ended and the teacher said: “all right You, You, You, and You stay behind!” And the teacher pointed at me, because I was nearby. I was like: wow, I haven’t been in trouble before! I was writing a lot of short fiction and poetry at the time so I thought it’d be a good experience. So I sat there and listened for a while as the teacher berated the kids. But eventually I realized I’d gotten all I was gonna get from this teacher’s unimaginative lecture, so I stood up and was like: I gotta go to class. The teacher glared at me and was gonna go off, but the other kids were cool, they were like nah he wasn’t a part of this. The teacher looked at me, looked at my sci fi book, looked at me again, then realized yeah these kids would never have anything to do with this dork. So they let me run off to class.

“word shitting”. Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.

This is a great way to describe LLM-based AIs. I’ma use it.

If you read the page, you’ll discover a way to remedy that.

More (bowel) moving than War-n-Peace. More slimy than Middlemarch. After this gets removed for not being a photograph, make sure you post it in a community that will better appreciate it.

I just kinda assumed that’s bc back in the day it was hard to find enough punk songs without cuss words that you could play on the radio.

Check out youth hostels / Hostelling International. Basically they’re inexpensive dorm-like hotels mostly targetted at younger backpackers. The ones in LA and Boston are in great locations. About 12% of Americans are of German descent (cite) so ask around, you or a family friend probably have a distant relative who immigrated here at some point.

So: get a cheap plane ticket. Fly into a city with a youth hostel. Wander around for a while. Catch a Greyhound Bus to visit your distant relative in Iowa. Hang out with them for a while. Catch another Greyhound to another city with a youth hostel. Fly back. You will meet a lot of people in the hostels. You’ll meet a lot of people on the Greyhound. Look up stuff ahead of time, not just tourist stuff but concerts or clubs or sports events wherever you go to. Sure it costs money but it’s a hell of a lot more fun than a resort or a cruise or whatever. Wait, isn’t “wanderjahr” a German word? Anyway after you spend a month or two here you’ll know whether you still like us or not.

• https://www.hiusa.org/
• https://hihostels.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostelling_International
• https://www.greyhound.com/

I think the really wealthy old-money people would never say such a thing. Because such a thing just wouldn’t occur to them. And if someone said that to them, they’d just kind of smile and nod the same way they would to a toddler. Maybe say “Ah, yes, very good.” So that’s probably the best response.

But if I were writing a screenplay and had to come up with a one-liner I’d probably go with, “Just goes to show you can’t buy class.”

Wait til ya hear about Juggalos. (slightly nsfw)

A lot of people are saying ADHD, but I think in some cases it could also be anxiety or depression.

Nice, love a single under 2 minutes long! Sounds like the drummer would not be out of place in a thrash metal band.

The Victorian Picnic (in which participants dress up) should be occurring as I type this. Looks like weather in Leipzig is windy but not raining. Here are some pictures from last year’s Victorian Picnic.

Yeah, I’ve done that thing with the phone.

Funny how this strip’s over 20 years old, so record-store lady in the bonus strip is looking at 40 now. References to record stores and CRT computer monitors are kinda dated, but the basic sentiment is not.

Used to have this album on cassette iirc. Listened to it so much it imprinted itself on my brain. I could “listen” to every song just by remembering it from start to finish.

Hey fellow slrpnk.net refugees… if you’re looking to recreate your list of subscribed communities, here’s a good place to start:

(luckily I was posting this to newcomers whenever I had the chance…)